Middle School Math

DEVAKI CHANDRA

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Objective: Teaching in Math, Economics, possibly Science EXPERIENCE, including translating between Spanish and English Accepted to an Embedded Teaching Licensure program, Relay Educator Preparation Program

Science and Math Teacher, ANTIOCH MIDDLE SCHOOL, Nov 2023-May 2024-taught 7th grade Math and Science. Collaborated extensively with other teachers and taught some students in Spanish as well as in English.

Mentor and Instructor, PROGRAM FOR TALENTED YOUTH, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, FALL 2022, SUMMER 2024-taught an Economics course to high school students titled

“Finding Common Ground Across Industries”, and “Does U.S. Trade Affect the Kind of High School Education You Get?”

INSTRUCTOR, SUMMER INSTITUTE OF THE GIFTED under SUMMER DISCOVERY, UC BERKELEY CAMPUS SUMMERS 2009-2019, 2022

NOMINATED FOR BEST TEACHER AWARD, 2010

Taught during both sessions for ten years in multiple topics, including these courses

• Calculus, Deriving Pre-Calculus, Mathematics of Finance, Algebra II with Trigonometry

• Creative Math Paths, Geometric Highlights, Statistics, Anticipating Algebra, Algebraic Expressions

• Discrete Mathematics and Mathematics for Computer Science

• Macroeconomics of Globalization

MENTOR for projects at Beyond Barnard (Barnard College)- Profiled as a Mentor in Barnard Magazine, Summer 2023

• July-August 2023-guided an undergraduate on The value of the U.S. Dollar globally while she was at the London School of Economics.

• January 2023-guided an undergraduate on electric vehicle market in California and Tennessee respectively

• August 2022-guided two undergraduates in cultural change vs. technological change regarding climate change and COVID vaccine

• June-July 2021-guided a 2022 graduate to assess the rate of return to COVID 19 Relief

• July-August 2020-guided a 2020 graduate towards finding employment in the pandemic OTHER SKILLS: Intermediate Spanish, having taught in Spanish if students didn’t know English; taught in French to one student.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, City University of New York (CUNY) Thesis: Stock Price Volatility in Emerging Markets

M.A. Economics, Hunter College of the City University of New York B.A. Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University

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